Software Development
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Going Dawkins on god objects
Meet the enemy. Steaming stinking jungle crushing all about you, insects infesting the air, strange grunts shuddering in the foliage,…
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Architecture-Breaking Bugs – when a Dreamliner becomes a Nightmare
The history of computer systems is also the history of bugs, including epic, disastrous bugs that have caused millions of…
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Zen and the Art of Collaborative Software Development
Conway’s law suggests that designs are constrained by organizational communication structures. I’ve seen that law manifest itself over and over…
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Understanding Transport Layer Security / Secure Socket Layer
Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 / Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0, is the mechanism to provide private, secured and reliable…
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How deep is your code?
Dependency tuples. Picture your code. Picture all those functions on which there are no source-code dependencies. That might sound odd:…
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Choosing a Programming Language
What programming language to use is probably the single biggest technical decision facing a project. That one decision, affects every…
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How to increase donations to an open source project
Lots of open source projects raise money from their user communities by soliciting donations. Most open source projects will have…
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Does Defensive Programming Deserve Such a Bad Name?
The other day I went to an hour’s talk on erlang, merely as an observer; I know nothing about erlang…
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Penetration Testing Shouldn’t be a Waste of Time
In a recent post on “Debunking Myths: Penetration Testing is a Waste of Time”, Rohit Sethi looks at some of…
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